Predicting the end of the world - FAIL

December 18, 2012 |By JAKE ELLISON

Notable predictions of the end

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Many doomsday predictions end in horrific deaths (think Jim Jones), and few captured the world’s attention more than the ordered killed by Charles Manson. About.com wraps it up: “Manson believed (the) song ‘Helter Skelter’ predicted an upcoming race war. ‘Helter skelter,’ Manson believed, was going to occur in the summer of 1969 when blacks were going to rise up and slaughter all the white people. He told his followers that they would be saved because they would go underground, literally, by traveling to an underground city of gold located in Death Valley. However, when the Armageddon that Manson had predicted did not occur, he said he and his followers must show the blacks how to do it.” (AP Photo/File)

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Many doomsday predictions end in horrific deaths (think Jim Jones), and few captured the world’s attention more than the ordered killed by Charles Manson. About.com wraps it up: “Manson believed (the) song ‘Helter Skelter’ predicted an upcoming race war. ‘Helter skelter,’ Manson believed, was going to occur in the summer of 1969 when blacks were going to rise up and slaughter all the white people. He told his followers that they would be saved because they would go underground, literally, by traveling to an underground city of gold located in Death Valley. However, when the Armageddon that Manson had predicted did not occur, he said he and his followers must show the blacks how to do it.” (AP Photo/File)